How to Use bestride in a Sentence

bestride

verb
  • In Riyadh, Mohammed bin Salman bestrode the stage as a great modernizer.
    — Josef Joffe, WSJ, 27 Jan. 2020
  • With the new Gilded Age now fully in swing, we are ruled by a class of philosopher kings who bestride the business and political worlds.
    — Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Jan. 2022
  • The offices are spooky-minimalist, and a colossal statue of a little girl bestrides the campus, her eyes glassy and piercing like a nightmare doll’s.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2020
  • Bolcom's immense skills as a songwriter bestriding the classical and popular realms are on winning display in the cabaret prelude to the show.
    — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 7 May 2017
  • In July 2003, Howard Dean bestrode the Democratic field like a colossus.
    — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2019
  • With no rule of law considerations outside those that further deep state power, the deep state truly becomes, as Hegel advocated, god bestriding the earth.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 11 Aug. 2017
  • In a unipolar world, Washington might have been able to be all things in all regions, like a colossus bestriding the world, but this is wholly untenable in an era of great-power competition.
    — Elbridge Colby, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2019
  • Such propaganda helps domestically by boosting Kim Jong Un as a titan bestriding the world stage.
    — Washington Post, 5 July 2017
  • Monocle views the world as a single, utopian marketplace, linked by digital technology and first-class air travel, bestridden by compelling brands and their executives.
    — Kyle Chayka, New Republic, 27 June 2017
  • Television has changed a lot since those halcyon days when a weekly drama in which characters debated serious ideas in a fair and thoughtful manner could bestride the Nielsen universe like a colossus.
    — Stephen Carter, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2018
  • The Lone Star State is already a literal powerhouse that bestrides domestic energy production.
    — Dallas Morning News, 15 Mar. 2026
  • His book is an attempt at redeeming a career wrecked by Robert Mueller’s prosecutors, who portrayed him as one of the most corrupt characters to ever bestride Washington.
    — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2022
  • In the distance, bestriding the border with Tanzania, is the behemoth, snowcapped Mount Kilimanjaro, the world's tallest free-standing mountain.
    — Mary Ann Anderson, Dallas News, 2 July 2019
  • In the nearly two decades since then, as digital design and social media have expanded the ranks of color obsessives, Pantone has become not just a company but a sensation, its brand bestriding the globe like a behemoth.
    — Bruce Falconer, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2018
  • The alternative is to continue to bestride both systems and accept the consequence that trust—arguably the most important attribute of a communication tool like Zoom—is at the mercy of the Chinese Communist Party.
    — The Economist, 20 June 2020
  • His career essentially bestrides the slow-to-grow Before Times and the apparent soccer paradise of today, which was fortified by remarkable facilities, boosted by an ideal central location and forged by an eagerly welcoming host city that slugged above its weight to make this happen.
    — Kansas City Star, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The film depicts a world where the Four are something like the Beatles, the Kennedys, the Curies, and the Brady Bunch all in one, a globe-bestriding celebrity family responsible for staving off supernatural threats and, seemingly, establishing world peace.
    — Derek Robertson, The Washington Examiner, 8 Aug. 2025

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